Early specialization is overrated. Generalists excel over time.
Data on >34k stars in sports, music, science, and chess: Focusing on a single field predicts a faster rise, but cross-training foreshadows a higher peak.
The most successful adults start off as well-rounded kids.
New Cell paper from the team that discovered glymphatic clearance (how your brain removes waste during sleep).
Sleep hours DIDN'T predict brain cleaning. Neither did REM or deep sleep.
They found what actually matters - and why some sleeping pills might undermine it 🧵
In patients with treatment-resistant #depression, combining esketamine with an SNRI results in lower rates of mortality, hospitalization, and depression relapse. https://t.co/0ieC93QbY8
Most viewed this week from @JAMAPsych:
ADHD medications are consistently associated with reduced risks of self-harm, unintentional injury, traffic crashes, and crime, but these protective effects weakened as prescription rates increased.
https://t.co/FJf1jDeYnY
In older adults, discontinuing antipsychotic medications after hospitalization was associated with reduced risks of rehospitalization, falls, infections, delirium, and mortality compared to continuation. https://t.co/rrVaN1Yknp
Systematic review and meta-analysis: Stopping antidepressants leads to slight symptom increases compared to placebo, but these symptoms are not clinically significant and do not include mood changes. https://t.co/zxtZH34uRu
Pope Francis was remarkable. Even though I would not describe myself as a Christian, my mother’s side of my family was Catholic. She was a lover and rescuer of animals and I was raised to revere St. Francis (1/2)
🚨Interesting article alert🚨 Schretlen, Finley, Del Bene, and Varvaris just published a paper reviewing meta-analysis of #cognitive functioning across 94 health conditions (CNS and non-CNS).
https://t.co/ystHKQuRMz
Happy to share that our work applying precision mapping to individuals with depression sampled longitudinally over an extended period has been published this week in @nature. Brief recap of the main findings and their potential implications below.
https://t.co/ZbTj6x7eyV
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New FND Treatment 🧵
This patient’s FND was triggered by a dog bite to her R thigh. She developed R leg heaviness that progressed to a severe tremor during a soccer game & intermittent head/trunk movements when walking. /1
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